Evolved Samsung Exynos 5 Octa coming next week

The Samsung Exynos Twitter account crackled to life on Thursday morning with a tweet hinting that an evolved Exynos 5 Octa is coming. The attachment to the tweet states that a more powerful and enhanced Exynos 5 Octa will be introduced next week. Right now, the most current version of the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa is found on certain versions of the Samsung Galaxy S4.

An evolved Samsung Exynos 5 will be introduced next week by Samsung

Speculation calls for the new chip to be the Samsung Exynos 5420 and will feature a higher clock speed along with improved optimization for the 8 integrated cores. Not technically a true octa-core chip, the Exynos 5 Octa is comprised of two sets of quad-cores with one set of Cortex-A15 chips doing the heavy lifting while the other set of quad-core Cortex-A7 chips takes care of the light housekeeping. Not all 8 cores can be used at once. When one set of quad-core chips are being used, the other cannot.

Recently, a road map from low cost chip producer MediaTek showed off a true octa-core chip coming, manufactured using TSMC's 28nm process. Mass production of this chip, the MT6592, is expected to start in November with the first handsets powered by the silicon to launch early next year. All 8 cores will be available for use at once.

Turning back to the tweet about the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa, the Korean tech titan said that it will be holding a Twitter based contest based on the evolved chip and the rules will be released next week. According to Samsung, the prizes will consist of Exynos powered devices.

Those AnTuTu scores are for y'all homes! 33k in AnTuTu terms is what to expect I think crossover, OctaV2, SD800, Tegra 4 on a real mobile device not a reference tablet with heat sink... who will win the efficiency race however? Can Intel come and steal the show?

Unknown circumstances though, like the Tegra 4 model, it could've been on wall with heatsinking... Intel has been struggling to match the best of the mobile SoC, but let's hope they do get it right this time, performance per watt.

Octa-core simply means the CPU sports 8 cores, which is true to the Exynos 5410 as well. Sure, using all at the same time would have performance benefits, but 4 A7 cores don't add too much performance while 8 cores running sky high would overheat quickly.

Proper core migration is the way to go, to use 2-3-4 cores in any combination at any frequency. Samsung wanted that initially, and here's hoping they got it right this time.

MediaTek has proven that a true octa-core chip is possible, albeit older chip... But wait until the "copy king" Samsung improve on that technology with some more powerful chips. True Octa is coming soon to the Note 5 and S6.

Seems like you are not much of a tech geek.. Media tek is using cortex-A7 octacore.. Have you seen the current performance of mediatek powered quad-core chips in Indian phones? They are nowhere compared to high end phones like s4 and HTC one.

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